BFA Printmaking

In my work I have been exploring the fragile and dependent relationship between food and landscape. What we eat is tied to the landscape that surrounds us, however we have become increasingly distanced from this connection through rise of mass production and supermarket culture. While what we eat is reliant the earth, global consumption habits are a cause of environmental detriment. In my practice, I attempt to question both North American food culture and my own place within it.

I aim to break the cognitive dissonance placed between what we consume and the creatures it comes from. To do this, I have been reuniting byproducts of food production, such as leather and rawhide, with their animal sources through woodcut printing. In this way I hope to address both the removal of personhood caused by mass livestock production, and the ways in which I, through my actions as a consumer, am implicated in this system of power.